Current Events > Is it worth reading The Kingkiller Chronicles?

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Ive heard high praise for them but the lack of the third book is putting me off.

Is it still worth giving them a shot?

I've heard they're pretty good, but like Martin, the author has left the series hanging for a decade or so.

I thoroughly enjoyed them, but it's been so long now that I will literally need to reread the books before the third one comes out, if it ever does.

Basically, imagine high fantasy but the person writing the book actually has a respect and talent for prose and storytelling, and doesn't just spend 400 pages worldbuilding and listing family trees and mountains.

I dont get the hype, but its worth trying

I've heard nothing but praise for the first book, the second seems to have a much more mixed reception.

That said, no book is good enough to justify starting a series that's going to end up incomplete imo. I'm usually a journey before destination guy but if the journey literally stops 2/3 of the way through it sours the entire thing. If by some miracle he does actually finish it then I'll consider checking it out.

I liked them a lot. They kinda made me cringe a little in a few spots, especially the second one. But even then I could just handwave it away in my head as an unreliable narrator, so it's all good. Third book probably never coming out though.

Nope. The books are absolutely amazing but the author is more focused on his charity than his writing career. His editor said they haven't gotten any pages from him in 4 years now, I believe.

The first book is one of the my favorites ever

But I can't recommend an unfinished series

You'll adore the first book and fall in love with it, then you'll languish in this purgatory for a decade+

I saw that Lin Manuel Miranda loved the series so much he tried to make a tv show and then did a homage in Hamilton.

That got me super interested. Does it end on a cliffhanger or something that makes the lack of a conclusion hard?

LightningAce11 posted...

Does it end on a cliffhanger or something

Not a cliffhanger per se, but absolutely nothing is resolved by the end of the second book.

The first two books are good. Like, not top tier fantasy fiction, but good. There's a big push nowadays to call everything Rothfuss ever wrote bad because he's annoying and not going to finish the series, but it's mainly social media outrage because they hate the guy

That said, as mentioned earlier, the author is probably never going to finish the trilogy at that rate. I totally get if that is enough to make you not want to bother, I probably wouldnt want to personally. If you can deal with it though, the first is worth a peek

The books, character, and world are amazing.
But I highly doubt we'll ever get a conclusion unfortunately.

LightningAce11 posted...

That got me super interested. Does it end on a cliffhanger or something that makes the lack of a conclusion hard?

Not really a cliffhanger, no. But Rothfuss has been steadfast that it would be a trilogy and I think he realizes that there is just too much to cover still for one book.

eh :/

i mean theyre decent and highly readable but looking back i just feel kinda :\eh:/ about them. read the first one twice and the 2nd one once. there still being no end in sight and rothfuss being like "this trilogy is actually the prologue for my superseries lol" doesn't help either

also i'm pretty sure i will read the third one whenever it eventually comes out but the series is far from one of my favorites